If Music be the Food of Love (3rd setting) – Henry Purcell

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Purcell set this text three times: the second (and most famous) is an elaborated version of the first and both are strophic.

This through-composed version (edited here from Orpheus Britannicus) represents the pinacle of precise, beautiful word-setting and must surely rank amongst the finest art-songs in the English language.